English Issue 22/2024

A doctor co-founds a university and a hospital in Germany; a social entrepreneur founds a trust that develops centers for special needs education across the UK. These visions started in the heart and manifested in steadfast, active devotion: for Gerhard Kienle, through a commitment to politics and the Anthroposophical Society, and for Aonghus Gordon, through a commitment to anthroposophy and to the potential each individual has within the greater community. They demonstrate the capacity for combining the poles of spirituality and practical life and allowing them to enhance each other: a bridge-building that calls for a practical understanding of the spiritual and a spiritual understanding of the practical.